I believe the word that everyone here is missing is consistency.
We are looking to make a division for RoH, which means we need to show that the division will be consistent, and not a fad that will be retired by 2020. In order to do this, we need to make decisions that are based in facts and not conjecture. One such decision is the one that is being discussed currently, and one that we have already made a decision on to be on Mateus. for the sake of the divisions future, my opinion is that we stay the course on Mateus, and wait to see if this talk of switching servers is a fad or something that legitimately needs to be discussed to save the division.
We have already established ourselves on Mateus. we have nearly 70 people in the FC, some of them making characters at oddball hours to get here, and many of us have likely made connections outside of the FC to people on Mateus, that plan on staying on Mateus. I am one. Chap is another, Zhaydin as well, and Kae has a group, too. those are just who I can mention off the top of my head. Supplanting the FC to a different data center with the opinion that the grass will be greener on the other side of the fence will split the FC in half, just as surely as this thread has flared tempers on both sides of the argument. Since Mateus currently works, Lance's law is in effect.
One major argument I keep seeing is that Mateus will be a ghost town once server xfers hit. and perhaps that is true. But I can not condone a server xfer until we actually see that Mateus becomes a ghost town after the server shuffle. back to decisions based in facts for the sake of consistency. SWTOR actually had a server xfer as well, but they did not initiate the xfer until they knew that their server was going too far down in pop, and the health of the division was on life support. We are very clearly not on life support for the division; we are thriving in numbers from just ROH members, and there are plenty of untagged people on Mateus that we can snatch up when we actually go in for recruitment. additionally, some people leaving Mateus would be a good thing: a slightly lower pop server would mean less chance of being tagged congested during peak hours so we can get more people to create characters to play with us. No one here can deny that is a good thing. while its always good to plan for worst-case scenario, but to immediately go to the nuclear option of a server xfer at the rumor of downsizing is asinine.
Ultimately, though, this is the clincher for me: We have no idea how any of this works. Until 4.5 drops and we can experience guesting for ourselves, we are left with too little information to base our facts off of, and we are making wild assumptions for the worst case scenario.
back to your regularly scheduled programming of roulette running and lalafell punting.